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mircea_popescu: fucking broken society, nobody has any idea of
their place anymore
mircea_popescu: these are just... random nobody. figures he can write
to people who he doesn't know, and
tell
them what
to do
mircea_popescu: forget censorship even,
that's something for
the powerful
PeterL: they
think you are hurting
their feelings?
mircea_popescu: i keep getting requests from derps
to delete
this or
that bit from
trilema as if
this were somehow a matter of course
assbot: Switzerland
to
Take Back Its Gold? | Sprott Money Blog
assbot: Logged on 04-10-2014 02:47:05; mircea_popescu: but anyway, only someone who had physically visited switzerland cca say 1994 can appreciate
the immensity of
the drop
nara__narayana: i was under
the impression
that switzerland was a banking hub due
to many circumstances, both political and geographical
decimation: nara__narayana: not really, who wants
to bank in switzerland when
they will divulge your banking
to anyone who asks?
decimation: it motivates me
to visit Liechtenstein one day, it's probably
the closest
the world has
to an actual historical form of functional government
dub: most likely
to succeed, at suicide
dub: who is curernt holder of
teh
title?
mircea_popescu: go into
the street, short bug-like big nosed arab orcs
mircea_popescu: started in egypt,
this. spent a day in
the museum surrounded by
tall, lithe, elegant nosed people
decimation: when I was last in europe (london) I got
the depressing feeling
that
the shells of
the historic buildings were being occupied by squatters unworthy of
their inheritance
nara__narayana: mircea_popescu funny you mention
that, cousin committed suicide just recently
decimation: probably because it's depressing as fuck
to know
that your culture is on
the permanent wane
mircea_popescu: back in 1980
the big news was
that east germany became
the 2nd highest (after hungary, everyone shook shoulders- of course after hungary)
mircea_popescu: nara__narayana quite particular. for 100 years straight
the highest suicide rate in europe
mircea_popescu: the womenz married
to romanians won't live,
the boys fdesperately in love wiht
the womenz...
decimation: yeah, I strongly doubt
that
the austro-hungarians would have resisted
the 'democracy' derpage
nara__narayana: my grandfather still complains about
the Hungarian population of peoples geographically stuck in
Transylvania
decimation: that is an even more interesting
thought.
mircea_popescu: but ironically, i
think by now it'd have looked exactly like us
mircea_popescu: now, had
the austro-hungarians actually defeated
the nasty side of germans,
then yes, europe as world power.
nara__narayana: what minds do you
think
the US harvested for
their rocket progammes?
decimation: hehe you mean
the crazy 'ukrainian nationalists'?
decimation: one wonders what ukraine would be like
today if
the nazis managed
to survive in some fashion
decimation: I suspect
that
the nasty emissions
that blot
the sun from
the sky in china do 'more harm', however you want
to measure
assbot: The Babushkas of Chernobyl | A story of
three unlikely heroines from
the most
toxic place on Earth
mircea_popescu: wasn't
there some nutty motorcycle chick
that kept sneaking in for a while ?
PeterL: their breeding
the X-men in
there!
decimation: I saw a show about it once, I
think
there is still a stubborn russian orthodox church open
there
too
decimation: but
that isn't gonna end humanity, just raise
the probability of certain cancers
mircea_popescu: but anyway, for living
things
the problem is mostly
their own metabolism. radioactive iodine is not distinguished from plain iodine ends up in endocrine system. strontium is, as far as
the body is concerned, perfectly good calcium. so on.
decimation: I would believe
that.
The main problem is gonna be stuff
that gets
taken up in plants over
the long
term
decimation: that was
the point of
the 'cold war shelter' - live in a box until
the really hot stuff rots away and
then come out in relative safety
decimation: the main problem is
the stuff
that decays slowly, but on
the upside it decays slowly - less intense radiation
mircea_popescu: well if
the reaction runs away... pretty much everything forms.
decimation: pretty much everything lower
than Pu in
the atomic
table is present
to some degree inside a fission reactor
decimation: yeah
that's not so good,
take your iodine pills
to keep it out of your endocrine system
assbot: Something Surprising Happened
to
the Animals Around Chernobyl 28 Years After
the Disaster - Mic
decimation: yeah, depends where it was and how much plutonium stuck
to it
decimation: people get
their panties in a bind about radiation, it's everywhere in varying amount
decimation: eh, it's pretty easy
to clean up fallout
nara__narayana: who doesn't need
their daily dose of radioactive decay?
decimation: the pci card off of ebay I linked awhile back. $3k golden
toliet price, I paid 100
nara__narayana: crypto+mobile
tech has allowed be
to do
this
thank god
decimation: asciilifeform: I got
that u-blox neo-7n module running, now
to use pps signal
to discipline
that ocxo card
mircea_popescu: "see
this ? guess which limb i'm missing, mr x?" "uhh" "the shame. just like you."
mircea_popescu: i never really care, except i bought
the yugo equivalent of
the purple heart from a lame guy once and wore it
to a politico party
to make ap oint
mircea_popescu: sort-of like in a sports
team. lucky charms and all
that
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform afaik
the stuff is
traded widely among active duty men.
PeterL: Isn't it generally accepted
that semi-auto is more effective?
PeterL: asciilifeform: which side are
the soldiers in
the video?
nara__narayana: just learned
today
that assad and ISIL/ISIS/TNEX are pretty closely
tied
assbot: Why does
the CDC own a patent on Ebola 'invention?' - NaturalNews.com
mircea_popescu: i
think
the last guy
that
tried
to do anything substantial was reagan. maybe nixon.
mircea_popescu: dub: you have a Guiding Hand whose system elects
temporary emperors in a way designed
to obfuscate it from
the herd << emperors my foot. pretty much all
the president can do is mispronounce for
the camera and be made a laughingstock of.